If you’re looking for some short (or long!) stories to have your higher level kids read, then I suggest you check out the Ebooks folder, located in the Secondary Folder. For those of you who have seen the blog post on how Breanna Durham used “The Monkey’s Paw” in her…
Hanukkah
It’s December! Today I just wanted to let you know about about a PPT in our database that could be helpful for you this month to explain Hanukkah to your students. Hanukkah by Elizabeth Glickman (South Korea ETA) It’s targeted towards Secondary South Korean students, but could easily be updated.…
Minority Opinion Game and Minority Vote Politics
Minority Opinion Game and Minority Vote Politics by Sean Blanco (South Korea ETA) Ever wanted to encourage a bit of nonconformity amongst your students? In schools across the world, there is considerable social pressure for students to fit in, follow the most popular fashion trends, and just generally do what…
Scaffolding (Part 2)
Welcome back everyone! In September’s blog post I ended at the formative assessment stage, where the teacher could determine if the student’s had hit the first part of the lesson objective, which was “Students will know the structure of recount texts and will be able to create their own recount…
Scaffolding (Part 1)
There’s a poem I really like by Irish poet Seamus Heaney called Scaffolding. While it’s quite good and I suggest you read it, teachers aren’t talking about its themes when they say that you should scaffold lessons 🙂 So what is scaffolding? Well, just like when constructing a building you…
You’ve Got Mail!
Before explaining what today’s featured lesson in, I just wanted to congratulate all the ETAs who completed the 2022 Global ETA Workshop! I hope it was helpful for everyone and that you were able to develop a portfolio of resources. Here at Fulbridge, we’re always looking for ways to support…
Extra, Extra~
It’s July! For most of us, that probably means it’s break time… which means, in teacher-speak, that now is the time we can spend looking for cool lessons, prepping for said lessons, and reviewing the past semester for ways we can improve! Right? 🙂 Seriously, though, the summer and winter…
Teaching about the US & its Holidays
Happy summer, everyone! (Or winter for those of you on the bottom half of the world!) In this blog post, since the Fourth of July is around the corner, I wanted to tell you about some folders with lots of great resources that are in the Primary, Secondary, and University…
Storytelling Lesson Plan by Lauren Danielowski
We all know that while technology can make our lives easier, it can also be unreliable or non-existent in some places ETAs are sent. Even in countries where technology is prevalent, there will still be days where the computer stops working or the file won’t open (both of them have…
First Day Lesson Planning
Hello everyone~ While some of you might be finishing up the school year and others are a few months into it, I wanted to highlight an area that I think every ETA gets nervous about- the first day of school! After all, teachers like to prepare no matter what time…